Detail of a Portrait of a Monk in Prayer by a French Painter in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2010

Artist: French Painter, about 1500

Title: Portrait of a Monk in Prayer

Medium: Oil on wood

Dimensions: Overall 13 1/4 x 9 1/2 in. (33.7 x 24.1 cm); painted surface 13 1/8 x 9 1/2 in. (33.3 x
24.1 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Fletcher Fund, 1937

Accession Number: 37.155


Gallery Label:

Probably the left wing of a diptych or triptych, this portrait is characterized by a mixture of French and Flemish influences. The sitter, whose identity has not been established, wears the black habit of a Benedictine monk.

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